Ketil Malde wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:37 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
Can someone explain me, why there are arrays with mutable but boxed
elements?
I, on the other hand, have always wondered why the strict arrays are
called "unboxed", rather than, well, "strict"? Strictness seems to be
their observable property, while unboxing is just an (admittedly
important) implementation optimization.
Unboxing is, unfortunately, observable: it is not so easy to make a
strict array of SomeArbitraryAlgebraicDataType, because it's not in
class Storable.
Isaac
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